CustomEmotes

Note: This AddOn is not currently being updated. It should still work overall (probably until Cataclysm changes a lot of things). Unfortunately I have not been playing WoW as regularly and I do not have the time to update my AddOns. If you have any questions, please email me at wikwocket@gmail.com.

This AddOn provides additional emotes and pull warnings. It was created due to my wife's and my desire to have many more emotes at our fingertips, especially some based on our favorite movies. We think you will enjoy delighting and harassing your friends and guildmates with such classic emotes as:

Wikwocket has the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! Soon, he will lobbest the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards their foe, who, being naughty in their sight, shall snuff it.

Wikwocket is the prettiest member of the Fellowship.

Wikwocket thinks we'd better split up. We can do more damage that way.

And of course:

Wikwocket is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.

These macros can be activated through a small smiley-face button, which appears near the chatbox by default, but is freely draggable. Clicking it will open the menus of emotes and pull warnings. As you hover over each emote, a tooltip should appear to show you what the emote will look like, both with and without a target, since many emotes will use a target's name in the emote, for maximum amusement. (The mod is smart about target names and the player's gender, modifying emotes to fit). Emotes and pull warnings can also be used via chat commands using each emote's abbreviation, for example "/ce LudicrousSpeed" or "/ce IKnowKungFu". You can do a random emotes by category by using the category name, for example, "/ce spaceballs".

You can also make a macro for "/ce pull" which will use a random pull warning each time, such as "Stay on target! Stay on target!" or "Not in the face, Coilfang Guardian! Not in the face!" Pull warnings will be said in Say, Party, or Raid chat as applicable, or as a raid warning if you are a raid assist (You can use "/ce pullnormal" to only use Say/Party/Raid chat).

If the tooltips that display the text of each emote are not displaying, they can be toggled using "/ce tooltips". This is because the mod uses the default dropdown menu tooltip system, and those are only displayed if the setting Interface Options: Help: Beginner Tooltips is turned on. Using "/ce tooltips" toggles this setting. Use "/ce reset" to reset the button's position in the game window.

I hope you find this mod useful and entertaining. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome!

Website:
http://wikwocket.wowinterface.com/portal.php
Contact info:
Please contact me by email (wikwocket@gmail.com), PM, or by leaving comments on an AddOn site. This is much preferable to trying to contact me in-game.

=== Version history: ===

CustomEmotes 1.17 (WoW 3.3.0):
* Added emotes from Bill and Ted's Adventures. Most triumphant and non-heinous!
* Added more Spaceballs emotes. Adding these emotes is irreversible... like my raincoat!
* Added some general emotes. I remember you... in the mountains...

CustomEmotes 1.16 (WoW 3.1.2):
* Added emotes from UHF, the best movie ever about a public access cable channel, that by the way also stars Weird Al. Red snapper, very tasty!
* Enhanced many of the pull warnings.

CustomEmotes 1.15 (WoW 3.1.1):
* Added more Mystery Men emotes, since it really is the best movie ever. We've got a blind date with Destiny. And it looks like she's ordered the lobster.
* Also added a few more quotes for Batman and Office Space since they needed a few more. I'll get you another copy of that memo.

CustomEmotes 1.9 (WoW 3.0.2):
* Added a new command, "/ce pullnormal" which does a pull warning, but does not use raid warning mode, just party/raid chat.
* Updated pull warnings to be prefixed with "<Pull incoming!>" if they are not sent using raid warning, to help distinguish them from normal chat.
* Fixed a bug that broke some slash commands.
* Note that until patch 3.0.3, CustomEmotes may cause UI taint or dropdown menu errors. This is due to a confirmed bug in WoW's UI, mentioned in reply #1 of this thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11676470259

CustomEmotes 1.8 (WoW 3.0.2):
* Added emotes from Scooby Doo and the online web series The Guild. No relation.
* Updated the mod for Wrath of the Lich King, fixing the icon display error and the dropdown menu error.
* Added the command "/ce tooltips" in case the tooltips weren't displaying. This uses the setting Interface Options: Help: Beginner Tooltips, which also controls whether dropdown menu tooltips are displayed.

CustomEmotes 1.7 (WoW 2.4.3):
* Added emotes from the Austin Powers movies.
* Added the ability to do a random emote by category, using the category name, as in "/ce ghostbusters".

CustomEmotes 1.4 (WoW 2.4.3):
* Added X-Files emotes.
* Updated many emotes to use "his" or "her" instead of "their" when referring to the player.
* Fixed Mystery Men emotes category. By the way, this is the best movie ever, go watch it.

CustomEmotes 1.3 (WoW 2.4.3):
* Changed pull warnings: now will use raid warnings if in a party, or if you are a raid assist.
* Added emotes from The Blues Brothers and Finding Nemo.

CustomEmotes 1.2 (WoW 2.4.3):
* Initial public release.

CustomEmotes 1.17 (WoW 3.3.0):
* Added emotes from Bill and Ted's Adventures. Most triumphant and non-heinous!
* Added more Spaceballs emotes. Adding these emotes is irreversible... like my raincoat!
* Added some general emotes. I remember you... in the mountains...

I personally loved this add-on and today took it upon myself to figure out what broke with Cata and update the files. I have gotten the addon functioning without error, though I have not thoroughly tested it.

To update the addon open your CustomEmotes.xml file and replace the main Scripts block with the following:

In addition you can turn off the "out of date" warning for the addon by opening the CustomEmotes.toc file and changing the "## Interface:" line to a value of "40000". Hope this helps. I'm not an author or developer so I do not want to get into the process of trying to officially assume this project from the original author, but at least those of us who love the addon can now enjoy it!

Originally posted by Wikwocket I wanted to post here that this AddOn is not currently being updated. It should still work overall (probably until Cataclysm changes a lot of things). Unfortunately I have not been playing WoW as regularly and I do not have the time to update my AddOns.

Thank you to everyone who reads or posts in these comments threads, especially to those who have submitted feature ideas and bug fixes. You're the reason the WoW community is so great!

THANK YOU! For the good times... this addon alone has made my wow playing experience more pleasurable. Best of luck in life and all that you do.

I wanted to post here that this AddOn is not currently being updated. It should still work overall (probably until Cataclysm changes a lot of things). Unfortunately I have not been playing WoW as regularly and I do not have the time to update my AddOns.

Thank you to everyone who reads or posts in these comments threads, especially to those who have submitted feature ideas and bug fixes. You're the reason the WoW community is so great!

Originally posted by Tondef would it be possible to code this into a LibDataBroker item?

Ideally I'd like my mods to also work as plugins to the various button bars out there. However as far as I can tell from a little research, to embed an addon as a plugin like that would require me to rebuild CustomEmotes' menus and repackage it with some libraries. I don't have the time to research and implement this now, but it does remain something that could be done eventually.

I don't know to much about the coding of addons, but would it be possible to code this into a LibDataBroker item? With addons doing open combat for screen space, it would be nice to be able to put this one on the Titan/Fu/Broker bar up top overseeing the battle.

Hilarious..my favorites are the Princess Bride quotes as my char name is Mostlydead. I cant tell you how many times people have asked me where I got these and I always direct them here. Thanks for the laughs.

Okay, I have fixed the typos, cleaned up a few things, and fixed /ce tooltips.

Originally posted by Alfuin
General: PunchAndPie: last word is not the same (Yay!/Yum!)

This, however, is working as intended. Passing out punch and pie to everyone is to be greeted with rejoicing ("Yay!"). A particular person receiving Punch and Pie is to be greeted with culminary delight ("Yum!"). At this time I feel this is balanced and in the best interest of the mod.